Worker killed after being crushed loading stock at worksite near Toowoomba
Staff were moving stock when the fatal incident happened.
A man has died after being crushed in a shocking workplace incident in Queensland’s south east.
The 36-year-old man was at a workplace on Heinemann Rd in Wellcamp, near Toowoomba, when he was crushed while staff were moving large crates filled with stock about 5.36pm on Tuesday.
The man, from Harristown, was assessed by paramedics at the scene for critical injuries, but was declared dead a short time later.
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Workplace Health and Safety Queensland has been contacted for comment.
Only days earlier a man died while working at a quarry on West Mount Cotton Rd in Sheldon when he was reported to have been crushed by a forklift.
It was the second serious workplace accident on the bayside in just four days, after a man in his 40s was killed in Tingalpa.
The man was working at Allstar Infrastructure when he was reportedly crushed between two trucks.
Only weeks earlier, on Easter Monday, another man was killed in a workplace incident after falling about four metres through scaffolding at a Clayfield development in Brisbane.
Miikael Varuhin, 32, reportedly raised concerns about the scaffolding on site on the day he fell and had sent a photo from his phone.
His death is now under investigation by Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.
Originally published on 7NEWS
